11 AUGUST 1883, Page 16

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The reviewer of Julian Hawthorne's novel in your last week's issue has described the lines,— "Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust,"

as Herrick's well-known couplet. It is rather hard that Shirley should be defrauded of one of the few poems that are yet remembered in connection with his name.—I am, Sir, &c., W. R. H.

[We are heartily sorry for our blunder, which is undeniable.— En. Spectator.]